The big event finally happened! Jason and Jess got married (and we got our basement back and Will got his back)

The rehersal dinner was Thursday night. Emily and Madeline were the flower girls and I was an usher. We had dinner over at the Shinn's house afterwards. Jason's parents are two of the coolest parents you'll ever meet. They both radiate such an inner joy and kindness to them, they just seem thrilled to talk to you and care deeply about the people around them. Kinda like I imagine Jesus being when he talked to people. They seem to be thrilled with adding Jess to their family. Jess inherited a great set of in-laws.


On Friday, we had Jason's bachelor party. We kidnapped him Old School style. All of the guys piled into a van with panty hose on our heads, pulled up to Jason's house, grabbed him, duct-taped him, and threw him in the back. We headed over to Brad's cottage where we went tubing, jet-skiing, grilled out and played some cards. Brad Reid bought the food from GFS, so we ended up the following ingredients:

• 15 Pounds of Frozen Hamburger
• A 5 Lb bag of shredded lettuce
• 15 Full tomatos
• Buns
• A 5 lb block of cheese.

We all kicked in and got Jason a whole set of manly tools - every too you could need as a newlywed. We watched old school twice and laughed just as hard the second time around.

The next morning was the wedding. Madeline and Emily were so cute as flower girls, and Buck, Will and I looked pretty snazzy as ushers. There were a couple things of interest as I walked around the church. One was a picture on the "Wall of Fame" of old pastors:

The other was the fact that Lisa Whelchel, Blair, of facts of life is coming to their church, and I'm all set to get an autographed picture.

Lastly, I got my picture taken with Kenny Rogers:

It was a great wedding, especially for being thrown together in seven weeks (no, they're not pregnant, they just didn't want to wait any longer to have sex). Jess looked beauitful and feminine, Jason was able to work Dave Matthews into the whole deal. They're on their way to Cancun this morning, there for an entire week.

Here are more pictures from the event.